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Lot 115
Sale 2359 - Silver & Objets de Vertu
May 20, 2015
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,000
Price Realized
$750
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
*Collection of tortoiseshell boxes, card and cigarette cases and other articles 19th/20th century
Comprising a George V tortoiseshell and silver-mounted box, 1921-22, retailed by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd; two George V tortoiseshell and silver mounted cut-glass jars, William Hutton & Sons, Birmingham, 1929-30; an English rectangular piqué-work card case, book box with silver mounts, and a box with silvered mounts and central shield-form vacant cartouche; four English and Continental tortoiseshell gentleman's items; two Victorian tortoiseshell cigarette cases, one inset with a portrait; a French tortoiseshell and piqué-work silver sewing case; a Japanese gold lacquer and tortoiseshell cigar case; two rectangular cigarette cases; and a woman's dressing table box. (17).